Paige Philpott- The Roaring 20s- 5P Project

1. “The Roaring 20s”
Music, Art, Religion, &
Literature
Paige Philpott
History 102 (Online)
Tracey Riordan

2. Thesis
 Although The Roaring 20s were a time of
celebration, it was also a time of extreme
change and a breakthrough of traditions.

3. Music during
The Roaring 20s
 The Roaring 20s were also
referred to as “The Jazz Age”.
 The Jazz Age did not just refer
to music. It also referred to
the political, economical, and
social changes happening
(“TheJazzAge”).
 The aspiring youth during this
era shocked the nation with
their new fashion trends and
new lifestyles (“TheJazzAge”).

4. Music during The
Roaring 20’s
 F. Scott Fitzgerald, an author during
this time period, came up with the
term, “The Jazz Age” and used it to
describe the “flamboyant” feel of
that era (“TheJazzAge”).
 The Jazz Age started with the end
of World War I and ended with the
Great Depression (“TheJazzAge”).
 Not just jazz music became popular
during this time, flappers and dance
also became popular.

5. Origination of Jazz Music
 Jazz music originated from the
dance rhythms of the African
American culture (McCann).
 Before the 1920s, jazz was
unmentioned and unknown.
 The recordings by white jazz
bands like the Original Dixieland
Jazz Band, the Louisiana Five,
and the New Orleans Rhythm
Kings created the uproar for
American jazz music (McCann).

6. Art during The Roaring 20s
 Art Deco was a style in design and
architecture during The Roaring 20s.
 This style is characterized by rich
colors, lavish ornamentation, curved
lines, and geometric shapes
(boundless).
 Artists using the Art Deco style often
drew inspiration from nature
(boundless).
 This style of art became extremely
popular starting in the 1920s until
the end of World War II.

7. Examples of Art Deco
 The Chrysler Building in
New York City is an
example of the Art Deco
style.
 The Hoover Dam is also
an example of the Art
Deco style.
 The Hoover Dam was
constructed from
1931-1936 and
resembles the Art
Deco Style because
of its brass elevator
doors and water
intake towers
(boundless)

8. Dada Movement
 Dada was a movement that protested the
outbreak of World War I.
 Dadaist embraced chaos and irrationality in
their artwork (boundless).
 People who supported this movement
participated in public demonstrations of art
to protest (boundless).
 Republican Automatons, by George Grosz, is
an example of a Dadaist protest art
(boundless). (Pictured to the right)

9. Surrealism
 Surrealism was a cultural movement that
impacted the visual arts, literature, theater,
film, and music around the world
(boundless).
 This movement informed political thought
and practice, philosophy, and social theory
(boundless).
 Surrealism artists used elements of surprise
in their artwork.
 The Elephant Celebes, by Max Ernst, is an
example of Surrealism in Europe (boundless)
(Pictured to the left)

10. Religion during The Roaring 20s
 Religion was still apart of everyday life
during the 1920s.
 With the separation of church and state, it
was prohibited for teachers to talk about
religion with their students.
 In 1925, John Scopes, a teacher, was arrested
for breaking the law by teaching this
students about evolution (DIVISIONS).
 This incident was not about teaching religion
openly, it was about the controversy of
evolution.
 This conviction of John Scopes was called the
“Scopes Monkey Trial”.

11. Literature during
the Roaring 20s
 Literature, whether it be in
play, book, or poetry form, had
some major achievements
during the 1920s.
 Some of the most influential
writers were writers during the
Roaring 20s.

12. Eugene O'Neill
 Eugene O’Neill was the first American
playwriter to win the Nobel Peace
Prize for Literature (ROVIT).
 O’Neill wrote 10 famous plays, won
many awards, and had many of his
works presented on the Broadway
stage during the 1920s.

13. F. Scott Fitzgerald
 F. Scott Fitzgerald was an inspirational writer
that is most remembered for his best selling
novel, The Great Gatsby.
 The Great Gatsby is a novel that displays a
friendship of a poor bondsman and a
charming billionaire while also describing the
Jazz Age perfectly.
 Fitzgerald published this novel in 1925 but it
was not until many years after Fitzgerald's
death that is became a work of art (ROVIT).

14. Ernest Hemingway
 Ernest Hemingway was a writer
during the 1920s and is most
known for novels, The Sun Also
Rises and The Old Man and the
Sea (ROVIT).
 His work won many awards long
after his death.

15. Robert Frost
 Robert Frost was a poet and a
playwriter during the Roaring
20s.
 He is most know for his works,
A Boy’s Will and North of
Boston.
 The well known quote, “Two
roads diverged in a wood, and
I, I took the one less traveled
by, and that has made all the
difference” are words written
by Robert Frost.

16. Henry Luce
 In 1923, Henry Luce created Time
Magazine.
 This new magazine changed the
traditional approaches in news
coverage like creating catchy article
titles (History).
 Luce also created Life and Sports
Illustrated during the Roaring 20s
(History).

17. Walter Winchell
 Walter Winchell was one of
the most read columnist in
American Journalism (History).
 He had frequent columns in
the New York Evening Graphic
and in the New York Daily
Mirror (History).
 His columns were mainly
aimed to start gossip and to
inform about politics and
business (History).

18. Journalism during The Roaring 20s
 The New York World
was known as the
newspaper of the
decade.
 It was often referred
to as “the
newspaperman’s
newspaper” (History).
 The New York World
expressed solid
reporting and writing
rather than a broad
news coverage
(History).

19. How did your topic fit into the daily life of
America in the era that you are covering?
 Music, art, religion, and literature were what made the
1920s what they are remember for.
 These aspects were a huge part of daily life and changed
the history of America.
 Actions done by Americans in the 1920s changed traditions
in music, art, religion, and literature.

20. What was it about your topic that was
unique to America and to our study of
American history since 1877?
 What is unique about the aspects of the 1920s is that this
was a time of celebration.
 After the ending of World War I, America was in a state of
celebration which altered the movements of changing
traditions.

21. How would you have felt about your topic if
you had been living during the era you are
covering?
 I would have questioned a lot of things in society like
Americans did.
 I would have felt that after the ending of the war, things
needed to change like they did.
 I would have loved the change in music, art, religion, and
literature.
 Advancements in society would have made me proud to be
an American.

22. How has your topic changed over the years
(describe its’ role in society today).
 The Roaring Twenties' role in society today is that it
started the change for the daily life of Americans.
 Americans were sick of the traditional roles of music, art,
religion, and literature and wanted to explore other
options during the 1920s.
 Because of the 1920s, Americans have the right today to
break through traditions and really find themselves
through music, art, religion, and literature.

23. What new information did you learn about
your topic that you didn’t already know?
 I learned about the many movements in the art
world during the 1920s.
 I knew that art was popular during this era but I did not
know that there was such things as protest art.
 I also learned about Art Deco.
 I had heard of this term but now I know the
components of it and how heavily it was influenced by
for art and for architecture.

24. Conclusion
 From playwriters to flappers, celebration was in the air
during the Roaring 20s.
 This era was full of nothing but fun and the breaking of
traditions.

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